NBC News’s newest contributor: David Axelrod, of course

posted at 2:01 pm on February 19, 2013 by Allahpundit

Seriously, though, in the modern media age no self-respecting cable news network is complete without a left-wing former presidential advisor. MSNBC has Ax and Gibbs, CNN had Carville and Donna Brazile. Fox has Karl Rove.

David Axelrod, former White House senior advisor and senior strategist for President Obama’s 2008 and 2012 campaigns, has joined NBC News and MSNBC as a senior political analyst. He will contribute frequently across all broadcasts and platforms of both networks.

For nearly three decades, Axelrod guided successful campaigns at every level on the ballot. He began his career as a journalist, spending eight years as a political writer, columnist and City Hall bureau chief for the Chicago Tribune before stepping into politics in 1984. He founded Axelrod and Associates, a political and media consulting firm which became AKPD Message and Media. He later founded the communications management firm ASGK Public Strategies…

The NBC News and MSNBC roster of esteemed political analysts also includes Steve Schmidt, former senior campaign strategist and advisor to the 2008 Presidential campaign of Senator John McCain, Michael Steele former chairman of the Republican National Committee and two-term former Governor of Pennsylvania Ed Rendell.

Schmidt, Steele, Rendell, and now Axelrod. They used to run the gamut from A to lowercase a; now they’re running it all the way to B. Congrats to NBC on diversifying their line-up. There’s no more perfect complement to Politico’s splashy feature this morning about Obama as the media’s puppetmaster than finding out his top strategist will now be a salaried employee for a major TV news bureau. When Chuck Todd’s done, maybe they’ll skip the middleman and hire Valerie Jarrett to be White House correspondent. Question for the WH press corps: Why object to O giving interviews to People magazine instead of to NBC? Judging by the staffing alone, People’s a more independent outfit.

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Seriously, though, in the modern media age no self-respecting cable news network is complete without a left-wing former presidential advisor. MSNBC has Ax and Gibbs, CNN had Carville and Donna Brazile. Fox has Karl Rove.

I see what you did there, AP. BTW, Chuck Todd looked completely serious in those remarks. Please tell me he doesn’t really believe that left-wing media bias is just a “mythology” created by Republican staffers on the hill. Does he actually watch his own news network’s primetime lineup?

I don’t know what it is about that guy but there’s something really creepy about him. He’s someone if you saw coming down the sidewalk towards you you might want to cross the street. He reminds me of David Berkowitz. shudder.

Chuck Todd doesn’t think there’s media bias? He thinks it’s our imagination, he needs to look in the mirror…it’ll be clear as day to him then.

As for the greasy one, NBC is dead to me and I avoid all their outlets as much as possible. This will not change that. From what I’ve gleaned, NBC has basically been in Axelrod’s employ for the past several years, doing his bidding, so it makes sense that he’d join them now.

really creepy about him. He’s someone if you saw coming down the sidewalk towards you you might want to cross the street. He reminds me of David Berkowitz. shudder.

scalleywag on February 19, 2013 at 2:28 PM

He looks similar to the pedophile that runs the senate foreign relations committe, flies around in private jets and bangs pre-teens.

if it’s not some nasty vile looking libtard female like pelosi, murray or clinton ranting about aborting fetuses it’s some creepy looking pedophile stlaking his next peice of meat and ranting about tea partiers

Glenn Reynolds considers most American journalists to be nothing more than Democrat operatives with by lines. Hiring a professional PR man and political agitator with generational ties to the Communist party cements my contention that the press has allied itself with radical forces who are the enemies of liberty and American civil society. NBC can go to hell.

Seriously, though, in the modern media age no self-respecting cable news network is complete without a left-wing former presidential advisor. MSNBC has Ax and Gibbs, CNN had Carville and Donna Brazile. Fox has Karl Rove.
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